Date   : Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:07:42 +0100
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: Level 4 FS Y2K query

I think the DATE I am currently using is the one from the L3FS supplied with 
BeebEm.

I found the DATE program that came with one copy of the L4FS I have, but 
that gives a
worse result than the one I was using - the first one at least got the day 
of the week right
(possibly more by luck than judgement though)

Do you have a list of the different Level 4 FS release dates? I have two 
different copies
of the server program, but only the older one (dated 1992) had the utility 
library with it.

As you say, it seems odd that Acorn released a file server after 1990 with a 
utility program
that had already stopped working correctly!

Perhaps they'd given up on the BBC platform by then, and were concentrating 
on RiscOS.

Regards

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Usher" <mu.list@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Level 4 FS Y2K query


> That seems odd as the Level4 R3 was released after 1989 and surely someone
> must have noticed it by then. Are you using the Date from the R3 disc 
> under
> library?
>
> -Mark
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bbc-micro-bounces+mu.list=aon.at@... [mailto:bbc-
>> micro-bounces+mu.list=aon.at@...] On Behalf Of Michael
>> Firth
>> Sent: 04 August 2009 13:05
>> To: Johan Heuseveldt
>> Cc: bbc-micro@...
>> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Level 4 FS Y2K query
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:04:58 +0200 (BST), Johan Heuseveldt
>> <johan@...> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Mon 03 Aug, Michael Firth wrote:
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> >> However, when I create files (in particular using CopyFiles) the
>> date is
>>
>> >> shown as 01.01.1981, and (today) the *DATE command returned "99th
>> August
>>
>> >> 1989".
>> >
>> > I did have a look at '*Date'.
>> > Printing out was fixed to '198'. Then the calculated digit was added.
>> >
>> > I'll upload soon
>> >
>> >   <http://www.waarland.demon.nl/Econet/DATE/>
>> >
>> > ('2Disassembled' not fully updated, so a few 'odd' remarks still
>> present)
>> >
>> > Later I would like to add the proper calculation (Julian?) from
>> Jonathan.
>> > (after asking him, of course, for permission)
>> >
>> The code for that version of Date shows it doesn't stand much chance of
>> working right.
>>
>> As you say, the year is fixed to 198x, which means it would already
>> have
>> stopped working
>> in 1990 (from the look of the code displaying that as '198:').
>>
>> It also doesn't have any provision for the new date format - see:
>>
>> http://www.heyrick.co.uk/econet/intro/y2k.html
>>
>> This would need to be added in to get dates after 1996 to work right.
>>
>> I think you mean BCD rather than Julian for the calculation - the date
>> is
>> already split into its
>> component parts, so you don't need to worry about date formatting
>> (which is
>> where Gregorian / Julian etc
>> comes in)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Michael
>>
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